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José Abreu
From BR Bullpen
José Dariel Abreu Correa
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 2", Weight 258 lb.
- Born January 29, 1987 in Cruces, Cienfuegos Cuba
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[edit] Biographical Information
José Abreu set a Cuban home run record in 2010-2011 and was named league MVP.
He had played five seasons in the Cuban Serie Nacional, where he was known as José dariel Abreu, through 2007-2008, hitting .295 and slugging .467. After 48 games in 2008-2009, he was batting .345/~.368/.600, earning the infielder a spot on Cuba's provisional roster for the 2009 World Baseball Classic. He did not make the final cut and finished the season with a .346/.441/.630 batting line. He led the 2008-2009 Serie Nacional with 30 times hit by pitch. He tied Yenier Bello and Alexander Guerrero for 8th in homers (19), was 8th in slugging and 4th in strikeouts (69).
Abreu was 2 for 10 in the 2009 World Port Tournament, backing up Ariel Borrero at first base. In the 2009 Baseball World Cup, he hit .250/.333/.469 in his first major tournament. He was listed in the IBAF's Final Report as being one of the All-Star outfielders alongside teammate Alfredo Despaigne and Jon Weber, but other sources list Puerto Rico's Miguel Abreu, who had better statistics. He was not even used as a starter in the outfield, playing alongside Ariel Borrero at first. In the Gold Medal game, he did not appear as Borrero saw the action.
In 2009-2010, Abreu had his best year yet, hitting .399/.555/.822 with 82 runs, 30 homers, 76 RBI and 74 walks to 49 strikeouts in 89 games. He tied Leonys Martin for 6th in the Serie Nacional in runs, tied for third with 25 doubles, tied Yulieski Gourriel for second in home runs (one behind Alfredo Despaigne in a to-the-wire home run race), was third with 235 total bases (behind Despaigne and Gourriel), again led with 30 times hit by pitch, tied Enrique Esteban Díaz for 4th in walks, led with 32 intentional walks (12 more than runner-up Yosvany Peraza), was second in average (.005 behind Despaigne), led in slugging (.008 over Despaigne) and probably led in OBP. He was named the All-Star first baseman.
Abreu was Cuba's starting first baseman when they won the 2010 Intercontinental Cup, their first Gold in an international tournament in three years. He hit .292/.320/.500. In the finale, he went 1 for 3 and scored the first run in the victory over the Dutch national team; he doubled off Rob Cordemans in the third and came home on a Yorbis Borroto hit. He helped Cuba finish second at the 2010 Pan American Games Qualifying Tournament. In the 2010 World University Championship, he posted the best average by going 10 for 18 with 2 walks, a double, triple, four homers, 9 runs and 12 RBI in six games as Cuba won the Gold. He was 0 for 4 in the finale, as Cuba edged Team USA. He was named the event's All-Star 1B.
José continued to improve in 2010-2011 with one of the greatest seasons in Cuban history. He hit .453/.597/.986 with 79 runs, 93 RBI and 33 home runs in only 66 games. Despite missing 23 games due to bursitis in his shoulder, he broke Despaigne's home run record (as did Yoennis Céspedes - both hit their 33rd on the season's last day). Despaigne would reclaim the record a year later. Abreu led the league in average (.052 over Michel Enriquez), slugging (a whopping .212 over runner-up Frederich Cepeda), intentional walks (21) and homers (tied with Yoennis Céspedes), was second in RBI (6 behind Céspedes), tied for 8th in runs with Donal Duarte, was 7th in total bases (209) and 4th in times hit by pitch (21). Had he not been injured, he would have likely easily won a Triple Crown. He won Serie Nacional MVP. He was the second MVP from Cienfuegos, following Pedro José Rodríguez, Sr. by 31 years.
He was the All-Star first baseman in the 2011 Baseball World Cup, hitting .442/.478/.721 with 3 home runs and 10 runs in 11 games. He beat out Donald Lutz, Matt Clark, Willie Vasquez and Baseball World Cup MVP Curt Smith among others for that honor. Entering the final day of competition, he was second to Rusney Castillo in slugging, third in average (behind Castillo and Dwight Britton) and tied for second in home runs (with Tommy Mendonca, Lutz, Clark, Fernando Seguignol and Smith, behind Vasquez). In the Gold Medal game, though, he was 0 for 3 with a hit-by-pitch against Rob Cordemans and David Bergman in an upset 2-1 loss to the Dutch national team.
Abreu remained dominant in the 2011 Pan American Games, hitting .524/.561/1.048 with 3 home runs, 5 runs and 9 RBI in five games, with great performances almost every time out. He hit a 2-run homer in a 5-4 win over Venezuela, was a triple shy of the cycle in a 9-5 romp over eventual champion Canada, went 3 for 4 with a walk in a 12-10 loss to Team USA and went deep off Mexico's Walter Silva as Cuba beat the hosts in the Bronze Medal game.
Abreu hit .394/.542/.837 with 75 walks, 22 HBP, 35 home runs, 71 runs and 99 RBI in 87 games for Cienfuegos in 2011-2012. He tied the Cuban record by homering in six straight games. When he hit home run #35, he tied Despaigne for a new Cuban record, but Despaigne hit #36 before the season ended to again rob Abreu of that record. He did finish among the league leaders in numerous departments: runs (7th, between Ramón Lunar and Alexander Malleta), home runs (2nd, one behind Despaigne, 13 ahead of #3 Gourriel), total bases (236, 2nd, 3 behind Despaigne), average (1st, .024 ahead of Danel Castro), slugging (1st, a whopping 142 points ahead of Despaigne), RBI (2nd, 6 behind Despaigne), hit-by-pitch (1st, one ahead of Pavel Quesada), walks (5th, between Ramón Tamayo and Enrique Esteban Díaz), OBP (1st) and intentional walks (33, 1st). He was named the All-Star first baseman though Despaigne got the MVP despite a lower OPS.
Abreu produced at a .382/.535/.735 clip with 13 home runs, 37 runs, 36 RBI and 37 walks in 42 games in 2012-2013 (Cuba drastically shortened their regular season that year). He tied Irait Chirino for second in runs (two behind David Castillo), led in home runs (two ahead of Despaigne), led in total bases (100, 5 ahead of Peraza), was third in RBI (behind Peraza and Malleta), was 4th in walks (after Frederich Cepeda, Despaigne and Joan Carlos Pedroso), tied for second in intentional walks (14), was second in average (.011 behind José Miguel Fernández) and led in slugging (66 points ahead of Despaigne). He was the All-Star first baseman, but the MVP went to Ismel Jiménez, the first pitcher to win in 11 years.
In the 2013 World Baseball Classic, the 26-year-old slugger was 9 for 25 with a walk, double, 3 home runs, 6 runs and 9 RBI in six games. He hit a grand slam off China's Yu Liu and a 2-run homer off Taiwan's Yi-Cheng Wang. In Cuba's last game, with a spot in the semifinals at stake, he had mixed results in a 7-6 loss to the Netherlands. He hit a solo homer off Orlando Yntema then singled off Shairon Martis in the 8th. In the 9th, though, he came up with two on and two out against Loek van Mil and flew out to Kalian Sams. For the tournament, he tied Despaigne for the most home runs, tied Mike Aviles for second in RBI (one behind David Wright) and tied Andrelton Simmons for second with 19 total bases (6 behind MVP Robinson Canó). Among players with 5+ games, he was 5th in slugging, between Canó and Chris Colabello. Despite far worse numbers, Edwin Encarnación was picked as the Classic All-Star first baseman.
He defected from Cuba in August 2013. On October 29th, he signed a six-year deal with the Chicago White Sox for $68 million. He was the White Sox's Opening Day first baseman when he made his major league debut on March 31, 2014 and collected a pair of hits in 4 at-bats, a run and an RBI in a 5-3 win over the Minnesota Twins. He was in a bit of a slump when he hit the first two homers of his career in the same game on April 8th against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The first was a three-run shot off Chad Bettis that broke open what was until then a tight 4-2 game; the Sox went on to score 11 runs over the last three innings of that game, winning 15-3, with Abreu homering again off Wilton Lopez in the 8th for a two-run shot. He then did not wait long for his second multi-homer game, as it came on April 10th, in a 7-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. That gave him 4 homers and 14 RBIs in his first 10 big league games. He was only the third player in the past 60 years to have 14 or more RBI in their first 10 MLB contests, following Mitchell Page (1977) and Mark Quinn (1999), both of whom had 15. On April 25th, he hit a walk-off grand slam against Tampa Bay Rays closer Grant Balfour with two outs in the 9th, giving Chicago a 9-6 win. The big hit capped a three-hit, six-RBI day for Abreu; he had earlier hit a solo shot in the 3rd. On April 27th, he hit his 10th homer, extending his rookie record, and drove in 4 more runs in a 9-2 win over the Rays. The 31 RBIs in April shattered the previous rookie mark of 27 held by Albert Pujols. Not surprisingly, he was named both the AL Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month for April. Home run number 15, hit on May 14th off Luke Gregerson of the Oakland A's, was another big one, as it turned a 2-1 deficit in the 8th inning into a 4-2 win for the White Sox. However, he was placed on the disabled list on May 18th with tendinitis in his left ankle and was reactivated on June 2nd. He seemingly hadn't lost a step, as he hit a two-run homer off Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first game back and hit another one the next day. he went on to be the AL Rookie of the Month for the second time, on the strength of a .313 batting average, 10 homers, 22 RBIs and 15 runs scored in 25 games. His 10 home runs in June were the most of anyone in the majors. On July 25th, he became the first major league players to hit 30 homers that year when he connected off Kevin Correia of the Minnesota Twins. It wasn't all homers, though, as he also put together a 20-game hitting streak in July. He recorded a second combination of the Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month in July, after hitting .374 with 11 doubles, 6 homers and 19 RBIs in 25 games. He went through a long homerless stretch in early August, going 77 plate appearances before launching his first homer of the month on August 19th, leading to speculation that he was hitting a wall, not being used to the long seasons in the United States. He collected his 100th RBI on September 13th; he was only the fourth rookie to combine that number with 30 homers and 30 doubles, after Hal Trosky, Ted Williams and Albert Pujols. His 35th homer the next day tied him with Ron Kittle for the team record for rookies and he set a new mark with his 36th on September 27th. He finished the season with a batting line of .317/.383/.581 in 145 games, with 35 doubles, 36 homers, 80 runs and 107 RBIs. He was a unanimous choice for the 2014 American League Rookie of the Year Award and also won a Silver Slugger Award as the AL's best-hitting first baseman.
[edit] Notable Achievements
- 2014 AL Rookie of the Year Award
- 2014 Topps All-Star Rookie Team
- AL All-Star (2014)
- AL Silver Slugger Award Winner (2014)
- AL Slugging Percentage Leader (2014)
- 20-Home Run Seasons: 1 (2014)
- 30-Home Run Seasons: 1 (2014)
- 100 RBI Seasons: 1 (2014)
AL Rookie of the Year | ||
2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Wil Myers | Jose Abreu |
[edit] Sources
- Baseballdecuba.com
- Radiorebelde
- 2009 World Port Tournament
- Beisbolcubano
- 2009 Baseball World Cup
- 2010 World University Championship
- 2010 Intercontinental Cup
- 2011 Pan American Games
- World Baseball Classic
- Article on Abreu's defection


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Molecular cloning and functional analysis of (R)-3-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein:coenzyme A transacylase from Pseudomonas mendocina LZ. | |
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PMID: 16213672 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
An inactive (R)-3-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein:coenzyme A transacylase (PhaG(Pm)) was cloned from a newly isolated Proteobacteria Pseudomonas mendocina LZ. It is the first characterized native inactive PhaG protein. Sequence analysis indicated that there were only two sites where the amino acid sequence differed between this inactive protein and the functional PhaG(Pp) from P. putida. The differences were located at position 78 and in the region 109-113 in the amino acid sequence. Mutagenesis was carried out to investigate these two sites. A recombinant strain harboring a S78C PhaG(Pp) mutant accumulated polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) at 11.9% of the cellular dry weight, as compared to the 21.6% PHA produced by the recombinant harboring the wild-type PhaG(Pp). On the other hand, the changes in the amino acid region 109-113 of PhaG(Pp) to its corresponding region of PhaG(Pm) resulted in negligible PHA accumulation. This demonstrated that region 109-113 in PhaG is relatively important for transacylase activity, while position 78 just plays a supporting role for the enzyme. Furthermore, 3-D structural models of PhaG(Pp) and PhaG(Pm) developed by computational prediction revealed that the variation in amino acids at 109-113 leads to the destruction of the PhaG catalytic center, resulting in the loss of enzyme activity. |
Leo Zhong Zheng; Zhi Li; Hong-Lei Tian; Ming Li; Guo-Qiang Chen |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2005-09-22 |
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Title: FEMS microbiology letters Volume: 252 ISSN: 0378-1097 ISO Abbreviation: FEMS Microbiol. Lett. Publication Date: 2005 Nov |
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Created Date: 2005-10-31 Completed Date: 2006-03-16 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7705721 Medline TA: FEMS Microbiol Lett Country: Netherlands |
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MOE laboratory of Protein Science, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. |
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genetics* Amino Acid Sequence Amino Acid Substitution Bacterial Proteins / genetics Catalytic Domain Cloning, Molecular* DNA, Bacterial / chemistry, genetics Genes, Bacterial Models, Molecular Molecular Sequence Data Mutagenesis, Site-Directed Mutation, Missense Protein Conformation Pseudomonas mendocina / enzymology*, genetics Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Amino Acid |
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Anyone willing to pay their own sponsorship for GB places?
Hi all,
I found plenty of threads about how to raise sponsorship for golden bond/charity places but wondering if anyone has done it the other way around i.e. is willing to cough up part/most of their sponsorship themselves?
I have a a few charity places for the big events this year, including a charity place for GNR. The charity I am with gives runners several options for raising the pledged amount, one of which is where the runner sets up a 12 month standing order. So there is no fundraising requirement, instead the runner pays the donation over the course of a year themself. I chose that option, as, although expensive (12 months = the average total sponsorship most charities expect) it is spread out over a year and I have absolutely no pressure to get people to sponsor me. One or two less meals/nights out a month and I barely notice the cash going out.
Traditional sponsorship has become harder and harder as I've had charity places in races before so a lot of my mates are probably getting a bit tired of being asked and I don't want to keep asking the same people! Plus I have a GB place for VLM next year, which I'd never be able to afford myself, so am having to "save" all my begging/organised fundraising events for that!!
Anyone else come across a standing order/pay your own donation options, or simply been happy to save up and donate all or part of the expected amount themself?
Be interesting to hear other's thoughts. By the way, I'm not rich at all haha, just very keen to do some of the large/over subscribed events at least once, and unsuccessful in ballots and I see it as no different than saving up for a holiday!
Havent done so but yeah would consider it - I am/was soo keen to so the london marathon but after a few years of no luck with the ballot I started looking at charity places.. and to be fair even fundraising for those would be a huge task as I dont have a huge network of friends/work colleagues. Last year I started a marathon fund in which I would put a bit away each month to cover sponsorship(or at least a good part of it). In the end I gave up and booked a place in the Brighton marathon instead!!!
Marathon fund, like it. What was once the exotic holiday abroad fund!
The charity pledge for VLM is £1800 (although fingers still crossed for this year's ballot). I will probably top that up a bit each month too myself whenever I have a spare few quid. I don't think there are any tax implications for the charity, it's a donation afterall. It was my first choice charity and have a connection to them so I'm more than happy to give to them anyway, just now it can be combined with a place for the run.
Gotta do VLM and GNR at least once, but after this will probably just wait for ballot luck. I have plenty of other races, local 10ks and medium HMs, and another marathon, all own places to enjoy without.
Intermanaut wrote (see)
I'd never go for a charity place. There are so many good events, many far, far better than GNR or VLM, that there's no need.
I agree, thy hype around these big events makes people feel they have to do them, they are so "desirable", but in fact they are just over-crowded and unpleasant.
There are so many great alternatives which you don't need to spend/raise a fortune to get a place in.
Thanks Mr Puffy! V kind of you! Hopefulyl I'll still be around in April and ready to run... :O)
I updated my JG page paraphasing the above, and put a link on facebook letting people know what I was doing - and got a £10 donation within minutes!
I think if you can afford to give that to your charity - that's great. My parents give a percentage of their wages every month to our family charity and it's kind of the same.
Good luck for having the dedication and 'putting your money where your mouth is'
I think it's a great idea - a hundred times better than constantly asking friends and family for 'sponsorship' that's partly being used to pay for your place in the race. Like those expeditions where you trek the great wall of China or the Gobi desert for charity but half of the £4k you've raised goes to pay for your free holiday!
I have friends who've done charity events and paid the cost of the pledge themselves. Mostly small events where the amount was £100-150 though, not anything like £1800. I couldn't afford to pay that much myself, not even by direct debit spread out over a year...
I agree that, for those that can afford it, it's a nice way of combining a very generous donation to a charity you care about with something you've always wanted to do (and for some people it's no more than they'd pay for a special holiday, for example). I've only ever done London on a GFA or champs place so the couple of times I've asked for sponsorship the money has gone directly to the charity, which I prefer. It's hard to know if I would have cracked and taken a GB place if I'd struggled to get in through the ballot or GFA/champs. I'm always slightly uncomfortable about the fact that the charity has paid a lot for the GB place, but at the end of the day once they've paid that money out it's better they get it back either through public donations or individuals effectively buying themselves a place!
i think if you want it enough then go ahead..........i wouldn't do it for a run as i think they are loeads of great ones around the country with no ballet etc........but we all have different things that we want to do /...........
but if i ever wanted to do one of the treks or foreign cycling ones then I would definitely pay all the costs myself......i would never ask for sponsorship for me to go and have a holiday and do something I really want to do.............the cost would have to come out of my own pocket
Seems reasonable to me. Many people have standing orders to make regular charity contributions, so "buying" a place in this way could be seen as a bonus if that's something you really want to do. And I respect people's rights to not like the London Marathon, and yes there are other marathons...
seren nos wrote (see)
ibut if i ever wanted to do one of the treks or foreign cycling ones then I would definitely pay all the costs myself......i would never ask for sponsorship for me to go and have a holiday and do something I really want to do.............the cost would have to come out of my own pocket
It still amazes me how certain activities are inextricably aligned with charity fundraising in some people's eyes. (A major triumph for the charity event marketeers?) I can imagine my mate feeling aggrieved because I didn't pay towards his sky-dive; the look on my aunt's face when I explained that I don't raise money for charities any more when I run marathons, like I've just killed a puppy...
I was going to scoff and say "well more fool you" but then I thought again. A couple of years ago I did a three-day event and sought donations for a particular charity. Like others here, I would never have entertained the idea of the donations or the charity paying for me to do something I wanted to do anyway so of course I stumped up for the entry fee, the travel, the kit etc, which in total came to a few hundred pounds.
So yes, this is a good way to donate. Personally I wouldn't ever touch a charity bond place because I think they're invading the sport and the sums involved are tbh more than I would want to donate. But if that doesn't bother you and you want to do one of the big-name events then go for it and best of luck, I say.
PhilPub wrote (see)
It's spreading, too. I told a colleague that I was doing a cycle sportive, and she immediately offered to sponsor me.
When I said I wasn't raising money, she was perplexed - why would I cycle 100 miles if it wasn't for charity?
Wilkie wrote (see)
PhilPub wrote (see) It still amazes me how certain activities are inextricably aligned with charity fundraising in some people's eyes. (A major triumph for the charity event marketeers?) I can imagine my mate feeling aggrieved because I didn't pay towards his sky-dive; the look on my aunt's face when I explained that I don't raise money for charities any more when I run marathons, like I've just killed a puppy... It's spreading, too. I told a colleague that I was doing a cycle sportive, and she immediately offered to sponsor me. When I said I wasn't raising money, she was perplexed - why would I cycle 100 miles if it wasn't for charity?
Completely agree with this. Although, i've noticed a real difference between the UK and Europe. If I say that i'm running a marathon to people in the UK - they automatically ask who i'm running for - in Europe - I get the response: you're crazy but kudos.
A friend of mine is fundraising 3000 GBP for her Great Wall of China trek and when I asked her why she didnt pay for her own travel she said " it's not just for cancer but the community and team feel of the entire trek". She wants the team spirit and the charity is just a way of achieving it.
No-one has ever asked me to sponsor their holiday, for which I am grateful.
I don't think I could avoid giving offence!
I think its a really great idea, more charities should offer that and publicise it! I would be much more likely to sponsor someone who had got their charity place that way.
@xine267 yes I looked for a quite a while after signing up for the charity for GNR that offered a standing order option - and couldn't find any others. Quite surprising - I'd have thought it offered a lot more security for them as they would begin to get a steady flow of funds in from the month the runner confirms the place. Rather than waiting for JustGiving amounts and cheques coming in - or the possibility of them not raising enough and having to insist on direct debits to make up for it later on.
If a standing order is available as an option to give as a personal donation then I would guess it cannot be considered a payment, therefore this is not the same as charity runners purchasing their place, so can still claim gift-aid etc and not get taxed (i think!!). So winner all round.
Can understand why some people would rather not do a big charity run, but some are certainly on my list!! I'd do anything from the local 10k with less than 200 runners to VLM, me.
Those who ask for sponsorship to pay for "challenge holidays" do get on my nerve, I might sponsor a very close friend for a charity i supported though. But not as a rule. It annoys me when people say it's work, not a holiday - well if you don't find this sort of thing fun when why not do something useful in your own city for a fraction of the cost, such as volunteering as a homeless shelter!!


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Exposure to 2 languages carries far-reaching benefits
People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, according to research conducted at Northwestern University. And their bilingual advantage persists even when the new language they study is completely different from the languages they already know. "It's often assumed that individuals who've learned multiple languages simply have a natural aptitude for learning languages," said Viorica Marian, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at Northwestern University. "While that is true in some cases, our research shows that the experience of becoming bilingual itself makes learning a new language easier."
In the first study to explore a possible advantage in bilinguals who learned a second language at a parent's knee, Northwestern researchers asked three groups of native English speakers -- English-Mandarin bilinguals, English-Spanish bilinguals and monolinguals -- to master words in an invented language that bore no relationship to English, Spanish or Mandarin.
They found that the bilingual participants -- whether English-Mandarin or English-Spanish speakers – mastered nearly twice the number of words as the monolinguals.
And they believe the bilingual advantage is likely to generalize beyond word learning to other kinds of language learning, including learning new words in one's own language and a very basic ability to maintain verbal information.
"After learning another language, individuals can transfer language learning strategies they've acquired to subsequent language learning and become better language learners in general," said Northwestern School of Communication's Marian.
Marian and Margarita Kaushanskaya, now assistant professor of communicative disorders at University of Wisconsin-Madison, are co-authors of "The Bilingual Advantage in Novel World Learning." Their study will be published in the August issue of Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
The study has important implications for educators who are considering the appropriate age at which to introduce foreign language instruction as well as for parents who in increasing numbers have an option to enroll their children in dual language immersion programs.
"We're seeing that exposure to two languages early in life carries far-reaching benefits," said co-author Kaushanskaya. "Our research tells us that children who grow up with two languages wind up being better language learners later on."
Although there are more opportunities today for children to participate in dual language immersion programs than in the past, parents often avoid them for fear that dual language instruction may end up confusing or distracting their children and inhibit subject learning.
In research presented in the May issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, however, the two co-authors demonstrate that bilinguals actually are better able than monolinguals to inhibit irrelevant information while learning a new language. Repressing irrelevant information, after all, is something bilinguals do every time they speak.
What's more, the majority of the world's population outside the United States is bilingual or multilingual, Marian noted. In the U.S., approximately one out of five American households speaks a language other than English at home, according to the U.S. Census. And, with higher birth rates among Hispanics relative to the rest of the population, that proportion is rapidly growing.
Previous research already indicates that individuals who have formally studied two or more languages as adults more easily acquire a new language than monolinguals. New research even indicates that the onset of Alzheimer's disease in bilinguals is, on average, delayed by four years compared to monolinguals.
The Northwestern researchers chose to study bilinguals who learned a second language at an early age and in a non-classroom study to avoid suggestions that their subjects simply were exceptionally talented or motivated foreign language learners.
For their study in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, the researchers controlled for age, education, English language vocabulary size and, in the case of bilinguals, second language proficiency. Sixty Northwestern University students in their early twenties -- 20 monolinguals, 20 early English-Mandarin speakers and 20 early English-Spanish speakers – participated.
All participants were tested twice for word mastery in the invented language. The initial test took place immediately after they heard and repeated the invented language words. The second test occurred a week later.
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Republican Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick is trying to keep his suburban Philadelphia seat against Democratic attorney Kathy Boockvar in a hard-fought race. I took a trip to the 8th District to get a closer look and report on it in today's National Journal Daily.
Here's the upshot.
But, just two weeks from Election Day, there are signs the race is shifting in the GOP's favor. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled nearly $600,000 in planned television ads, according to reports. A Democratic consultant who declined to be named said Boockvar has a climb to unseat Fitzpatrick. The Cook Political Report rates the seat "Lean Republican."The Boockvar campaign and the state Democratic Party, though, wax optimistic. James Hallinan, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party, said Boockvar is "connecting with Bucks County and Montgomery County voters." And Boockvar spokesman Andrew Grubin points to a solid quarter of fundraising on the challenger's part. "We had a phenomenal third quarter. Our fundraising exceeded half a million dollars, more than any other Democrat in a Pennsylvania congressional race, including incumbents," he said.
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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. |
Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. |
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. |
¶ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. |
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. |
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. |
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. |
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But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. |
¶ Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. |
¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. |
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. |
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; |
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. |
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The tumour suppressor gene maspin is differentially regulated in cytotrophoblasts during human placental development. | |
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Identification of factors that play a role in regulating the highly invasive ability of human placental cells throughout gestation will contribute to a better understanding of this unique developmental process. The aims of this study were to determine whether the tumour suppressor gene maspin is present in the human placenta and plays a putative role in the regulation of cytotrophoblast invasion during placental development. The data showed that the expression of maspin mRNA was maximum in term placentae compared to the first and second trimester tissues, and absent in the HTR-SVneo (immortalized extravillous cytotrophoblast), JEG-3 and JAR (choriocarcinoma) cell lines. Maspin protein, detected by Western blot analysis, was twofold higher in the second trimester and 4.4-fold higher in the third trimester compared to the first trimester. Maspin immunohistochemical staining was localized in cytotrophoblasts with increased and more diffuse staining in the second and third trimesters. Corresponding to the period of maximum maspin expression, cytotrophoblasts isolated from term placentae had significantly lower invasive ability as compared to first and second trimester cytotrophoblasts (P< 0.03). Further, addition of recombinant maspin significantly decreased cytotrophoblast invasion in vitro by 40-50 per cent in all three trimesters of gestation. This study provides the first evidence of the temporal expression of maspin during human gestation and suggests a putative role for maspin in regulating the invasive activity of cytotrophoblasts at term. The down-regulation of maspin expression may be critical at the time of implantation and early placental development, whereas upregulation of maspin may serve as a signal for the end of cytotrophoblast invasion and gestation. |
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The Orange County Board of Commissioners meets tonight with the school boards for Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County, in a joint meeting at the Whitted Meeting Facility in Hillsborough.
One of the agenda items for the special meeting will be an update on efforts to pay a living wage to all county and CHCCS district employees.
Effective July 1 of this year, 95 seasonal and temporary county employees received a living-wage increase from $10.97 an hour to $12.76 an hour, as directed by the County Commissioners' budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15.
The Orange County Board of Education has not yet adopted its budget for the current fiscal year. That's scheduled to happen from mid-to-late October.
According to a county schools report from the previous school year, non-licensed substitute teachers in Orange County were making $10 per hour for a seven-and-a-half hour workday.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Assistant Superintendent Todd LoFrese reported that a recent three-percent bonus for school employees, made possible by the support of the county, followed 15 years in which the average annual pay increase was a mere 1.8 percent.
In a letter to County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, LoFrese wrote that CHCCS would like to continue paying employees enough to keep up with inflation.
As WCHL recently reported, some employees of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system receive regular food assistance from the Inter-Faith Council Food Pantry in Carrboro.
Tonight's joint meeting between County Commissioners and the two school systems takes place at 7 o'clock at the Richard Whitted Meeting Facility, located at 300 Tryon Street in Hillsborough.
http://chapelboro.com/news/oc-commissioners-meet-school-boards-hillsborough/Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a $200 million dollar budget that includes a 2-cent property tax rate increase.
The property tax rate for next year will be 87.8 cents per $100 dollars of assessed value, the first increase in five years.
The additional revenue will go to support education, as both school districts are braced for funding cuts from the state that will likely translate to a reduction in teaching assistants.
The chairs of both the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City school boards came before Commissioners to thank them for the increase.
Orange County Schools Chair Donna Coffey said the additional local money is not a windfall for the district, merely a patch at best.
"There's still a great bit of uncertainty coming out of Raleigh and the budget hasn't been finalized," said Coffey. "At the very least I think we're going to face more cuts, which will mean a lot less funding from Raleigh."
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chair Jamezetta Bedford agreed.
"We don't know what the state is going to do but it won't be good," said Bedford. "Our TA allotment is also the most critical piece that could be cut, well over 50 positions in the State Senate proposed budget. So this increase in taxes really will help us."
Board of Commissioners Chair Barry Jacobs reminded the audience that the two school districts have seen a combined loss of $42 million in state funding in the past five years.
The 2014-2015 county budget goes in to effect July 1. Legislators are still hashing out the final version of the state budget.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/orange-county-approves-2-cent-property-tax-rate-increase/County Commissioners did an abrupt about-face Thursday night, reversing a vote on rural recycling funding in response to criticism from the Chapel Hill Town Council.
"The message that we need to send to the towns tonight is that, in fact, we do want to be their partners, we do want to work with them," said Commissioner Alice Gordon.
On Tuesday, the board voted to spend $728,000 from the solid waste reserve fund to pay for rural recycling pick-up for the next fiscal year.
But on Wednesday, Chapel Hill Town Council members argued the majority of the money in the solid waste reserve fund was contributed by the towns, making it unfair to subsidize recycling pick-up for county residents while asking the towns to levy a $59 dollar fee on urban households for the same service.
In a rare move, the board revisited the issue at a work session Thursday and voted unanimously to fund both rural and urban programs from the solid waste fund, a move that will cost the county more than $2 million.
The solid waste reserve fund is set aside to pay for post-closure costs at the Orange County Landfill. The county is legally responsible for the site for the next three decades.
Commissioner Penny Rich said she'd like to see the towns find a way to help replenish that fund now that the county is no longer collecting landfill tipping fees.
"If we are going to take the $2 million dollars out of the reserves, we include the towns in the conversation about how we can build that back up, because right now we don't have a way of doing that," said Rich.
To figure out a funding plan for the future and solve ongoing questions about how to deal with solid waste and recycling, the board voted Tuesday to create a multi-jurisdictional task force chaired by a County Commissioner.
The board will appoint its representatives to the Solid Waste Advisory Group on June 17.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/county-commissioners-reverse-course-rural-recycling-vote/At a budget work session on Wednesday, Chapel Hill Town Council members sounded off about a vote the night before by Orange County Commissioners to fund rural curbside recycling out of reserve funds, while asking the towns to levy a $59 per household fee for the same service.
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said the move jeopardizes future collaboration with the county on solid waste and recycling.
"You know, we made a decision two or three months ago that we were all in it together," said Kleinschmidt. "I think we did that with the hope that, by this point, we were actually going to be in lockstep, that we were going to have a county-wide plan to move forward. But we don't."
Council members argued the majority of the money in the solid waste reserve fund was contributed by the towns, making it particularly unfair to subsidize recycling pick-up for county residents while charging urban households.
In light of Tuesday's vote, some Council members said they won't agree to levy the town recycling fee when the budget comes up for approval next week.
Instead, the Council is asking Commissioners to consider funding both rural and urban recycling pick-up for next year from the solid waste reserve fund.
While this would drop the county's $3 million dollar post- closure landfill contingency fund down to $1 million, Town Manager Roger Stancil told the Council that's not their problem.
"At this point it's totally the county's issue," said Stancil. "So they would have to find a way to pay for that liability."
Chapel Hill officials last year investigated the costs of hiring private contractors to handle trash and recycling pick-up, but Council members agreed to try to maintain a fifteen-year partnership with the county in hopes of furthering the community's solid waste reduction goals.
Town and county officials were drafting an interlocal agreement to spell out how that might work, but Stancil told the Council that process ground to a halt recently, as county leaders threw their support behind a task force instead.
Commissioners voted to create that task force on Tuesday, stipulating that a Commissioner would act as chair and inviting Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and UNC to participate, along with five residents.
Council member Jim Ward has worked with Orange County on solid waste issues in the past, but this time, he called the process flawed.
"This committee that I'm just hearing about, we had no input on that. This is totally unacceptable to me, the process and the outcome," said Ward. "The outcome isn't any surprise because of the process that they're using."
In response to lobbying from town leaders, County Commissioners will reopen the issue at Thursday's work session, and likely vote on a new funding plan.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chapel-hill-balks-bocc-funding-plan-recycling-pick/HILLSBOROUGH- After months of debate, Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve spending $728,000 from the solid waste reserve fund to pay for rural curbside recycling pick-up for one year.
While board members agreed it was preferable to raising the property tax rate to cover the cost of the program next year, some, including Mark Dorosin, argued it might be time to reconsider the county's reliance on fees.
"I'm happy to support [this] option tonight, but I think it's a very, very, bad, dangerous precedent to start talking about funding services based on who uses them," said Dorosin. "Once you start talking about everything is a fee for services, you really undermine the idea of a community."
The county was forced to find a new funding model after a court ruling called into question the county's ability to levy the fee that supported the program. The board scrapped two alternate funding models in April before opting for Tuesday's stopgap measure.
Town and county officials are moving towards an interlocal agreement on solid waste, but no agreement has yet been reached on how to equitably fund the recycling program, how the governments should share any future facilities like a waste transfer station, or where such a facility might go.
In an effort to tackle those questions, Commissioners voted 5-2 to create a Solid Waste Advisory Group of residents and elected officials to sort out short and long-term goals for cooperation. Commissioner Penny Rich was one of those who favored a wide scope for the task force.
"This is not a group just to find out what we're doing with recycling, this group is to really explore what we're going to do," said Rich. "I mean, we need a solid waste plan, we need to make that we move into the future and not have this discussion every single year."
The board will appoint Commissioners on June 17 and solicit representation from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and UNC as well as five members of the public. Commissioners hope to receive a report from the newly-formed task force at next fall's Assembly of Governments. In the meantime, the board will review a draft interlocal agreement on June 17.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/bocc-looks-task-force-solid-waste-recycling-solutions/The North Carolina General Assembly is meeting in "short session" this year – but there's been no shortness of controversy.
At the center of debate last week was the budget proposal released by State Senate Republicans, which includes more than $400 million for a significant hike in teacher salaries – but that raise comes (among other things) at the expense of massive cuts to teacher assistants in grades 2 and 3.
Already facing a multi-million-dollar shortfall, officials at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools say the Senate's proposal would likely force the district to make even more cuts than they were initially planning – unless they can persuade County Commissioners to dig even deeper into the pool of local money. (Fully funding the budget requests of both the county's districts would almost certainly necessitate a tax increase, though, which County Commissioners and county staff have been reluctant to impose.)
Meanwhile – though it hasn't received as much media attention – local municipalities across the state are also contending with the repeal of a business privilege tax, which the AP reports could cost municipalities a total of $62 million statewide. Governor Pat McCrory signed the repeal on Thursday.
With those and other issues in mind, WCHL's Aaron Keck invited Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board member James Barrett to the studio on Thursday, for a pair of conversations about the local impact of recent actions at the NCGA.
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http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/local-electeds-react-state-senate-budget/The Southern Human Services Center was awash in a sea of crimson Thursday night as more than 300 parents and teachers wearing red for education turned out to the budget public hearing to ask Orange County Commissioners to fully fund both school systems.
"We're tired of seeing our kids' education become a political chew toy. We're tired of teachers not making a living wage," said Jeff Hall, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro PTA Council. "We're tired of hearing that next year is the year we do something, next year we'll raise revenue or cut costs, next year we'll fix old or overcrowded schools. There isn't 'next year.' We're insisting, we're demanding, frankly, we're begging you to fully fund our schools."
Hall was one of forty speakers who addressed the board before a standing-room-only crowd. Outside the boardroom, the building was filled to capacity, with supporters standing shoulder to shoulder lining the hallways. Still more waited on the lawn after the fire marshal was forced to turn them away.
The county manager's proposed $195 million dollar budget for 2014-2015 does include more money for Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools than last year, but the plan falls short of what each district requested.
The Orange County school board requested an additional $2.9 million dollars next year, while the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board asked for an additional $3.9 million.
Under the county's current budget plan, Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools could lose 22 teaching assistants. Kim Talikoff is a fourth grade teacher at Estes Hills Elementary. She told commissioners teaching assistants are vital to the success of her students.
"I will not be able to compensate for what I am about to lose if we don't act now to fully fund TAs," said Talikoff. "So I ask you please, provide the funding we need to make our shared objectives possible. Please put TAs in every classroom."
The recently released state Senate budget proposal also has education supporters on edge, as funding for teaching assistants would be cut in half, resulting in the loss of 57 teaching assistants in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system. Assistant Superintendent Todd LoFrese told commissioners the Senate plan would more than double the district's budget gap.
"In the current scenario, we would need to make reductions of over six million dollars to balance our budget," said LoFrese. "We felt that it was important for commissioners to know this, and know that both school districts will be under a tremendous amount of pressure. We reiterate our request for your strong continued support and increased funding."
To increase school funding, commissioners have the option of raising the countywide property tax rate, raising the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax, or dipping into the county's fund balance. The manager's plan already calls for $8.5 million worth of fund balance money to balance the budget.
Board Chair Barry Jacobs reminded the crowd that Orange County elected officials have long supported public education. He thanked the parents, teachers and students in the audience for their advocacy.
"Unlike the North Carolina Legislature, we actually want to hear from the public," said Jacobs, to much applause.
The board will discuss the budget at a work session on Thursday, June 5. The final budget is scheduled to be adopted June 17.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/hundreds-call-bocc-spend-schools/The North Carolina Legislature has received a lot of criticism for its cuts to public education, adding pressure to the local government's efforts to support its schools.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro city school board has requested $3.8 million in local money, including $750,000 more in renovations.
If the county manager does not meet their budget request, CHCCS will have a $2.7 million shortfall, leading to "first round proposed reductions" in gifted specialists positions and central office staff members.
An additional two million in cuts affects the students more directly, through reductions in media assistance in schools, high school theatre classes, elementary teacher assistants and more gifted specialists.
Jeff Hall, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro PTA council, says it is important for the commissioners to pick up the slack in funding caused by changes in the state budget, a job that needs to be done quickly and creatively.
"I have a third grader who is identified as gifted," Hall said. I don't want to see her lose a gifted specialist in her school that will meet her needs and help her develop as a child. There is nothing on this list (of cuts) that is okay."
Governor Pat McCrory's new $21 billion proposed budget includes $263 million towards increasing teachers pay in upcoming years, an amount many educators, like Culbreth Middle School teacher, Chuck Hennessee, find unrealistic.
"In a Republican legislature who has thus far not worked with (McCrory), they are not going to approve more taxes in order to get the budget that they need," Hennessee said. "Is (McCrory) truly ignorant of what the real state of education in our state is?"
With many North Carolina teachers working multiple jobs and applying for public assistance, it is a clear indication of a lack in public education, even here in Orange County.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Assistant Superintendent Todd LoFrese said he fears the repercussions of that lack.
"Not meeting this funding request is going to have a direct impact on classroom and services provided to kids."
The board of County Commissioners proposed budget includes a total $92.3 million in school spending, a $3 million increase in last year's amount. The board will have to balance this delicate weight in order to best fund both districts, even with the budget increases. The Orange County school board is requesting $1.96 million more from the commissioners, a 5.7 percent increase.
"I believe in the (Orange County Commissioners) ability to find a way to fully fund both Orange County schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools for the upcoming year and we need them to do that now more than ever," Hall said.
County commissioners will host two public hearings on the budget on May 22 and 29. The final budget will be adopted by June 17.
http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/schools-request-increased-budget-orange-county/With less than a week to go until the May primary, Bonnie Hauser and Earl McKee have raised and spent more than their competitors in the race for two seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
First-time candidate Bonnie Hauser is challenging incumbent Barry Jacobs for an At-Large seat on the Board of Commissioners. According to first quarter campaign finance reports, Hauser has raised $12,314 and spent $10,269, while Jacobs has raised $8,991 and spent $4,431.
In the race for the District 2 seat representing Hillsborough and rural Orange County, incumbent Earl McKee has raised and spent nearly double that of challenger Mark Marcoplos.
McKee brought in $10,848 in the last four months and spent $5,662, while Marcoplos has raised $3,948 and spent approximately $2,800.
All the candidates are Democrats with no Republican challengers, meaning both the At-large and District 2 races will be decided in next week's primary. Early voting is currently underway now until Saturday. The primary election is Tuesday, May 6.
http://chapelboro.com/news/election/hauser-mckee-lead-fundraising-bocc-races/CHAPEL HILL – Orange County has seen a great deal of recent political turnover, with a newer, younger generation of legislators and community leaders emerging to replace the old.
But how do those new leaders navigate the political realm? How do they make a difference, in institutions still dominated by older legislators and older ways?
"I walk in, first of all, as a student – a student of the game," says newly appointed State House Representative Graig Meyer. "How am I going to play this game? What do I need to learn? Who do I need to align myself with? Who do I need to emulate? Who do I need to stay away from?"
First-term Carrboro Alderman Damon Seils agrees, adding that finding one's place involves not only the need to learn how to play the game – but also the chance to elevate the discourse.
"One of the things that I found myself doing – while not intending, necessarily, to do it – was to come to the role with a kind of posture of wanting to demonstrate how to disagree well," he says. "I think that, in itself, has value."
Other young or first-term legislators agree that 'being the new guy' also offers a rare opportunity to shake things up.
"I think all of us who are new elected officials have one opportunity, which is to really see how things have been done and to ask questions about why," says first-term County Commissioner Mark Dorosin. "Why do you do something like this? Why is it like this? And maybe that's the right way to do it, but you have the opportunity to say, 'Explain it to me – and in doing so, explain it to the constituents.'"
Fellow first-termer Renee Price agrees. "If I have to say something that's going to ruffle somebody's feathers, I'm sorry," she says. "Well, no, I'm not sorry, really."
And first-term Chapel Hill Town Council member Maria Palmer says she can also take advantage of her status as a demographic outsider as well.
"I'm an immigrant," she says, "so sometimes I can say things that other people are too embarrassed or have been told all their lives you can't say in polite company."
Palmer, Price, Dorosin and Seils all occupy seats on elected boards that serve Orange County alone – so all four can say their own values adhere fairly closely to those of their fellow board members.
Not so Meyer, a Democrat in the Republican-dominated General Assembly. "I just drove back from Raleigh," he says, "and I was in an education policy hearing…(and) most of the people in the General Assembly don't know a darn thing about education. And I cannot believe they're making some of the decisions that they're making."
Among other things, he says, those decisions include a continued reluctance to raise teacher pay – and, on Thursday, a task force recommendation to eliminate the Common Core standards.
Those moves and others have left him frustrated, Meyer says – and it can be no less frustrating for new and young officials seeking to make change in Chapel Hill. But despite the frustration, Meyer says it's possible to be hopeful for the future, simply by looking back to the recent past.
"On the days that I'm mad and angry – and today sitting in chambers was one of the worst days that I've had – I tend to think about Terry Sanford and Bill Friday," he says. "Those gentlemen came out of World War II together…and they decided that they were going to fight racial segregation and build the prosperity of this state based on having a strong public education system.
"And there is no reason why today's leaders shouldn't be able to come together around the same goal of building our long-term prosperity on a well-educated populace and the ability to stand up against the continued existence of institutionalized racism and other forms of inequity."
And it's that hope that sustains local leaders – young and old and newcomer and veteran alike – as they continue to push for change.
"Change is hard," says Dorosin. "It's very frustrating. But, you know, every day you start to push the rock up the hill – and you hope that today, it gets all the way to the top."
And in the end, Renee Price says, that activism pays off in its impact on people.
"There's something very interesting that happens, I think every single time I've had a meeting (where) I've been frustrated," she says. "The next day someone will call me up, or they'll see me in the grocery store, and they'll just say 'thank you.'
"And you know…it makes it worth it."
Dorosin, Price, Meyer, Seils and Palmer made those comments in the "Tomorrow's Newsmakers" panel of the 2014 WCHL Community Forum.


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Priority: | major | Component: | other |
Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.8 | Keywords: | crash, mac, freeze |
Cc: | Guest type: | Windows | |
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When installing or running a guest operating system, in my case, Windows Vista 32 Bit and Fedora 14, the host computer, running 10.6.7 Mac OSX, crashes requiring a complete restart of the system. The guest operating system settings are as follows:
2048 MB RAM 128 MB Video RAM No 2D/3D Acceleration No IO APIC (Has same effect with it on) 1 Processor, No PAE/NX No VT-x/AMD-v 60 GB Hard drive Using Windows Vista 32 Bit DVD as operating system at the moment as installation has not yet completed.
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comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by frank
Is there any crash report or does the host completely freeze?
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by st47
These is no crash report that I have been able to identify. The last time it froze, the words PANIC on a black background appeared in the upper left-hand corner.


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I'm getting ready for my first night passage. Mystic, CT to Block Island, RI
Tomorrow night is the full moon and we leave with the ebb at 11:00PM. I will have two crew with me. Aside from using inflatable PFD w/ tether for leaving the cockpit... Any advise for avoiding lobster pots at night? Should be perfect weather for a sail, except, of course, light winds :D So we might be motoring. The moon will be bright, we are in familiar waters, and we are safety aware boaters, but those damn lobster pots! |
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A "Full moon" is not a prerequisite for night sailing to me.
In fact I prefer a new moon as my night vision is actually impaired by the headlight of a full moon. Just saying...:rolleyes: |
Essential tool for a night sail in pot infested waters is a shaft line cutter.
One of these hand held spot lights is also good. Shine on sails if about to be run down. |
I don't get out much at night, so last night I went for a motor around the harbor at midnight. Was almost too bright, so I might have to agree with Doublender. :)
Too late for a shaft line cutter to be installed :D I did order one of these, but, I'm starting to doubt it will get here by today, even though I was promised it would be here. LED lighting, soundproof, Sailor's Solutions Inc. Got the spot light. |
Ordinary binoculars will show up lobster pots and other obstacles well even on a dark night.
I love sailing after dark and scan ahead every couple of minutes. Navigation lights can be hard to pick out against shore clutter but will show up with careful scrutiny, double check their colors and sequences against the chart. Safe sailing |
If it were me, I'd be wearing the PFD and tethered whenever on deck, not just when leaving the cockpit. Crew overboard at night is deadly.
Good luck and have fun! |
This is the form we use. http://www.swiftsuresailing.com/documents/passplan.pdf |
I have a night vision scope and it has made all the difference. If you are going to be navigating inshore waters it turns night into day! Try to avoid looking at streetlights and other bright objects. Mine is an inexpensive one. I once used a top shelf pair of night vision binoculars that were on a yacht we were delivering from Mount Desert Island, ME to Newport, RI and having them to stand watch with convinced me of their value. No more guessing about what you are looking at out in the dark. We also have a very bright remote controlled spot that plugs into a socket I installed in the bow anchor locker. It mounts to the bow rail with a stainless mirror mount I bought at a truck stop. If I am going to be motoring in lobster pot infested waters at night I clamp it to the rail. it makes it easy to see what is out front and keeps both hands free. It also makes me quite visible!! The scope is better if two people are on board and eliminates the glare king. I like the scope for sailing single handed at night.
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The Remonstrants are the Dutch Protestants who, after the death of Jacobus Arminius, maintained the views associated with his name. In 1610 they presented to the States of Holland and Friesland a remonstrance in five articles formulating their points of disagreement with Calvinism.
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The five articles include:
- that the divine decree of predestination is conditional, not absolute;
- that the Atonement is in intention universal;
- that man cannot of himself exercise a saving faith;
- that though the grace of God is a necessary condition of human effort, it does not act irresistibly in man; and
- that believers are able to resist sin but are not beyond the possibility of falling from grace.
Their adversaries, inspired by Franciscus Gomarus, became known as Gomarists or Counter-Remonstrants. Although the States-General issued an edict tolerating both parties and forbidding further dispute, the conflict continued and became linked to political conflicts in the Dutch Republic. The Remonstrants were assailed both by personal enemies and by the political weapons of Maurice of Orange. Their foremost ally, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, was executed, and other leaders were imprisoned.
In 1618–19 the Synod of Dordrecht, after expelling the thirteen Arminian pastors headed by Simon Episcopius, established the victory of the Calvinist school. It drew up ninety-three canonical rules, and confirmed the authority of the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism. The judgement of the synod was enforced through the deposition and in some cases banishment of Remonstrant ministers. An exile community was founded in Antwerp in 1619. In 1621 they were allowed to settle in Schleswig, where they built the town of Friedrichstadt.
The doctrine of the Remonstrants was embodied in 1621 in a confessio written by Episcopius, their major theologian, while Jan Uytenbogaert gave them a catechism and regulated their church order. Their seminary in Amsterdam had distinguished pupils, including Curcellaeus, Limborch, Wetstein, and Le Clerc. Their school of theology, which grew more liberal and even rationalistic, forcefully debated the official Dutch Reformed state church and other Christian denominations.
After the death of Maurice of Orange in 1625 some exiles returned. The government became convinced that they posed no danger to the state, and in 1630 they were formally allowed to reside again in all parts of the Republic. They were not, however, officially allowed to build churches until the establishment of the Batavian Republic in 1795. Until then they held their services in so-called Schuilkerken (house churches).
Modern Remonstrant Brotherhood[edit]
The Remonstrant Brotherhood continues as a church in the Netherlands. It has its origins in the theology of Arminius and the signing of the "Five articles of Remonstrance" against a stricter form of Calvinism by 44 ministers. The Remonstrants proclaimed the responsibility of man, pre-ordination through foreknowledge of faith, and that Christ's death was sufficient for all. In line with the progressive views on religion, Remonstrants have been blessing same-sex partnerships on an equal footing as different sex weddings from 1986 onwards (church weddings have no legal status in the Netherlands, where the legally acknowledged civil same-sex marriages became possible in 2001).[1][2] In this the Remonstrant were the first Christian church in the world to bless same-sex relationships similar to other relations.[3]
The Remonstrants first received official recognition in 1795. Their chief congregation has been in Rotterdam. Today, the Remonstrant Brotherhood has some 5,780 members and "friends", in 46 congregations in the Netherlands, and one congregation in Friedrichstadt, in northern Germany (2008). It keeps fellowship with the European Liberal Protestant Network.
See also[edit]
- Arminianism
- Calvinism
- Five Articles of Remonstrance
- Five points of Calvinism
- Methodism
- Predestination (Calvinism)
- ^ "advies aan commissie Kortmann". Remonstranten.org. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- ^ "Kerken komen uit de kast". Kerknieuws.nl. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- ^ "Remonstranten en Boomsma krijgen homo-emancipatieprijs - Nieuws - TROUW" (in Dutch). Trouw.nl. 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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